Morrison's Pensions
Pension Application for Joseph Crawford
R.2466
State of New York
Delaware County
Declaration
in order to obtain the benefit of the action of the Act of Congress of the
4th of July 1836.
On this
28th day of October 1837 personally appeared before me Amos Douglass one of
the Judges of the County Courts in & for the County of Delaware. Margaret
Crawford a resident of the Town of Tompkins in said County of Delaware and
State of New York aged seventy eight years the 14th day of last February
who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following
declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the Act
of Congress passed the 4th July 1835.
That she
is the widow of Joseph Crawford who resided at Curry Bush (1) at the commencement
of the Revolutionary War.
That he
the said Crawford enlisted at Schenectada in the State of New York on the first
of April 1781 for the term of nine months in the capacity of a Corporal in
the Company Commanded by Capt. Lawrence Gross (2) in Colo. Marinus Willett’s
Regiment of New York Levies.
That some
time after enlistment the said Crawford was promoted to a sergeant and served
out the residue of term [such] as that he was employed with said regiment up
in the Mohawk River in the campaign of 1781 and was discharged at Fort Plain
the last of December 1781. That said Crawford rendered other services
in that war the particulars of which said deponant cannot now recollect.
She the
deponent further declares that she was married to the said Joseph Crawford
on the 28th of January 1783 by the Revd. William Johnson the Parish Minister
at Curry’s Bush. That her husband the aforesaid Joseph Crawford
died on the 28th of July 1829 and that she has remained a widow ever since
that period as will more fully appear by referring to the proof hereto annexed. She
further saith that the record hereto annexed of births and marriages and
of their proper family record and contains the birth and marriages of herself
and her said husband and was taken from their family Bible.
NB. [The word Willett was interlined 15th line before signed]
(Signed, her mark) Margaret Crawford
Sworn to & Subscribed
on the day and year above written before me Amos Douglas one of the Judges
of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Delaware being a Court of Record.
Family Record
Joseph Crawford September 9, 1761
Margaret Shankland (3) wife of Joseph Crawford February 14th 1759
Children of Joseph and Margaret Crawford
Andrew Born July 18th 1783
Sarah April 14, 1785
Joseph June 18, 1787
Lucretia October 18, 1789
Robert December 23, 1791
James January 15, 1793
John June 3, 1795
Alexander June 30, 1798
William August 6, 1800
Marriages
Joseph Crawford was married to Margaret Shankland January 28 1783
Sarah Crawford was married to John Huyck September 7, 1802
State of New York
Delaware County
William
Crawford of the Town of Tompkins in the said County being duly sworn according
to law deposeth that he is one of the children of Joseph and Margaret Crawford
deceased that as but a child this deponent has a direct interest in the application
and claim for a pension due this deponant’s mother the foresaid Margaret
Crawford at her decease.
(signed)
William Crawford.
Sworn to
and Subscribed to this the 22 day of December 1853 Libbius L. Teed, Justice
of the Peace.
Letter included in the pension folder.
September
18, 1925
Mrs. Charles Groet
151 W. Wilson St.
Madison, Wisc.
Madam:
I have to
advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, R.2466,
it appears that Joseph Crawford was born September 9, 1761, place not stated.
He enlisted
at Schenectady, New York, April 1, 1781 and served nine months as a Corporal
and Sergeant in Captain Laurence Gross’ Company, Colonel Marinus Willett’s
New York Regiment. (4)
He died
July 18, 1829.
Soldier
Married January 28, 1783, Margaret Shankland, who was born February 14, 1759. She
applied for pension, on account of her husband’s service, October 28,
1837, while a resident of Tompkins, Delaware County, New York, but the claim
was not allowed, as the pension laws required that she be married before the
end of her husband’s service and she was not married until after that
time.
She died
prior to December 22, 1853.
Their children
were
Sarah April
14, 1785, married Jacob Huyek September 7, 1802.
Joseph
June 18, 1787
Lucretia
October 18, 1789
Robert
December 23, 1791
James January
15, 1793
John June
3, 1795
Alexander
June 30, 1798
William
August 6, 1800
In order
to make a proper search of the records of this bureau for a soldier named John
Barus, some of the following data is essential, approximate dates of birth
and death, places of residence at enlistment and after service and given name
of widow. Also please state the War in which he served.
Respectfully,
Winfield Scott
Commissioner.
End Notes-Joseph
Crawford R.2466
By James F. Morrison